B3 funded PhD student Laura Nixon (Lincoln University) has been working with USDA collaborators on volatile emissions from BMSB for better detection of the pest at ports and in sea-freight containers.

A link is provided here to a YouTube video on this work prepared by Dr Rob Morrison who is part of Dr Tracy Leskey’s team at USDA ARS Kearneysville.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h19hrwp9eUw

Laura’s work has been supported by the MBIE International Relationships Fund to help coordinate priority topics and cross-cutting action items for Invasive Species Research under the NZ-US Joint Commission on Science and Technology Collaboration (or JCM).

Contact:  Michael Rostas (Michael.Rostas@lincoln.ac.nz)